{"id":15513,"date":"2018-05-05T18:22:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T02:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/as-karl-marx-turns-200-visitors-pay-respect-and-a-fee-at-disputed-tomb-site\/"},"modified":"2018-05-05T18:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T02:22:28","slug":"as-karl-marx-turns-200-visitors-pay-respect-and-a-fee-at-disputed-tomb-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/as-karl-marx-turns-200-visitors-pay-respect-and-a-fee-at-disputed-tomb-site\/","title":{"rendered":"As Karl Marx Turns 200, Visitors Pay Respect \u2014 And A Fee \u2014 At Disputed Tomb Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n On Saturday, Marx’s 200th birthday brought about 1,000 people to see his tomb and speak about his communist philosophy.<\/p>\n

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On Saturday afternoon, Nushi Nazemi marked the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth by laying a wreath at his London tomb.<\/p>\n

Nazemi, 67, grew up in a Marxist family in Tehran and served time in prison in Iran for her communist involvement against the Islamic regime. And to honor the philosopher behind the anti-capitalist activism of her youth, she paid 4 pounds (about $5.40) to enter the Highgate Cemetery.<\/p>\n

“I am OK with it,” Nazemi said, regarding the admission fee. “For keeping the environment safe and clean, they have to actually have some budget.”<\/p>\n

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\n Exiled Iranian Nushi Nazemi said she laid a wreath at Karl Marx’s tomb to honor the man who inspired her family in Tehran. Nazemi said she didn’t mind paying 4 pounds to see Marx’s tomb if the money helped maintain the cemetery.<\/p>\n

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Born in Germany in 1818, Marx’s revolutionary ideas earned him expulsions in his homeland, as well as Belgium and Paris. He arrived in London in 1849, where he wrote Das Kapital<\/em>.<\/p>\n

When Marx died in 1883, he was buried at Highgate. He shares the shade of ash and sycamore trees with Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy;<\/em> novelist George Eliot; historian Eric Hobsbawn and Claudia Jones, a Trinidadian activist who founded London’s Notting Hill carnival.<\/p>\n

But Marx is clearly the main attraction, his name marked in red block letters on the cemetery map provided to visitors.<\/p>\n